New Trip Reports: Kashmir & Indonesia
Kashmir, 2013: Alain Guillemont, 8 days & 7 species including 11 Himalayan Black Bears in a morning!, Markhor and Goral. Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi, Borneo and Bali), 2
New Trip Reports: Florida & Beach Voles on Muskeget Island, Mass.
Two new reports on mammalwatching.com Florida, 2013: Mike Richardson, 2 weeks & 17 species including an Eastern Spotted Skunk and Black Bear. How to see a Beach Vole, 2013: Vla
Saola photographed
Spotting a saola is a little like looking for the Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot. (Except a saola is, you know, real.) The elusive long-horned ox, which looks rather like an antelope
Indo Pacific Humpback Dolphin Taxonomy
An article about splitting the Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin into 3 species. I was aware that some people considered there to be two species (S.chinensis and S.plumbea), but now it
New Trip Report – Sulawesi
An interesting new report from Torbjorn Lundqvist on Sulawesi, including a visit to Siau Island. Sulawesi, 2013: Torbjorn Lundqvist, 11 days & 10 species including Siau Island
Cheetahs’ Iranian revival cheers conservationists
Asiatic cheetahs, a subspecies of the fastest animal on earth, are extinct everywhere except in Iran, where they are considered to be critically endangered. But marking a rare succ
Elephant vs Hippo
This is fun (unless you were the hippo) http://blog.africageographic.com/africa-geographic-blog/wildlife/wildlife-and-nature/elephant-fury-for-this-mother-hippo/. The comments thre
Florida Bonneted Bats
Does anyone have any recent information on where to see this species, preferably roosting, while I am in Florida over christmas. It seems – from Google at least – that
Trip Report: A long weekend in Quebec
I’ve visited Quebec several times and I think it is fair to say I have mixed feelings. The scenery is hard to fault and there ought to be some good mammals to see. But it is a ha
Infrared technology for small mammal photography
Here’s a nice article from Karl Van Ginderdeuren on high speed flash photography of bats and rats. This first appeared on his blog. cheers Jon